Do you really care about motivating staff but the boring nature of the cogs and widgets your current employer sells just sucks the passion right out of your coworkers? Ever wonder what it would be like to take charge of HR at a company where your coworkers are already naturally passionate about the industry? Do you happen to be a car enthusiast? If you’re determined to find a job that puts your skills to better use and may even combine your career with your passion, then this is your chance!

APEX Wheels is seeking someone independent who can take control of all things HR as our HR Manager. We design and distribute lightweight, motorsport wheels for racers and car enthusiasts, and our team is packed full of enthusiasts who eat/sleep/breathe cars. You don’t have to be a car enthusiast to fit well into this role, but you absolutely do need to be passionate about HR.

As the company continues to grow the CEO can’t give these responsibilities the attention they deserve. With how fast we’ve grown, we’ve had less time for check-ins, fewer team building events, and less time to clarify individuals goals. We need you to jump in and help the CEO and management get HR back on track, and then take us to the next level with new initiatives we’ve never done before. This is not an administrative role just filling out paperwork for compliance purposes. We want to lean on your experience and creativity to help boost employee performance, morale, and retention.

You don’t need to be a legal wizard, as we’ll rely on attorneys and HR consultants for keeping up with legal changes. You do need to be great with computer systems as software is key to managing so much on your own. If you don’t already use help guides to bolster your software knowledge, or you forever struggle to get used to a UI, then you’ll flounder among all the systems we expect you to be a power user of. If you're actually excited by the idea of using advanced features and automations, then you’ll fit in well.

As the manager of these responsibilities in a one person department, you’ll thrive because you take a disciplined, conscientious, and hands-on approach in order to deliver high quality and precise decisions. You’ll take your time to absorb information and think, as getting it “done right” with no mistakes is key when people’s paychecks, careers, and the law are on the line. Because of your independence, you can drive new initiatives on your own with minimal direction.

Responsibilities

• Improve employee performance, morale, retention, and compliance in partnership with leadership and management.
• Take most HR responsibilities away from the CEO and support our mid level managers with HR expertise during hiring, goal setting, feedback, reviews, compensation changes and more.
• Oversee best practices training and support to managers so they don’t create liabilities.
• Help grow our 30 person team by about 5-10 new members in the coming year, and potentially help build the team for our new subsidiary if our joint venture goes through.
• Implement new policies and changes. If we want to add a new employee benefit, then help with plan and policy design, legal coordination, and roll out.
• Work with the CEO and legal counsel on sensitive topics.
• Improve our interviewing workflow and provide coaching for managers so they conduct better interviews.
• Oversee and improve the onboarding process. Better pre-planning, device sourcing, and day 1 onboarding, and expectation setting. Create branded welcome packages. Setup post start check-ins.
• Ensure multi state compliance. Staff in 10 states and growing. Work with our legal counsel and HR consultants to maintain and customize each state policy. Understand and minimize state to state differences where it makes sense. Keep policies and documents up to date, and clear to staff.
• Oversee our Workable ATS, Rippling HRIS, and Lattice PM systems. Be an admin and power user. Use advanced features, setup automations, and ensure they are fully leveraged by the team.
• Update system settings to match our policies for each state, and ensure pay, benefit changes, and employee records are up to date.
• Work with our benefits broker to ensure smooth onboarding, changes, off-boarding and proper setup in our HRIS.
• Assist with payroll, timecard and PTO review. Payroll can be processed in just a few clicks, but we need to ensure time cards don’t have mistakes and recent pay changes or bonuses aren’t missed.
• Oversee employee records. We have some old paper records and new digital records. They aren’t together. Help maintain an easily accessible employee file.
• Help build a better culture with team building events that can be done remotely as most staff are remote, and orchestrate occasional in person company gatherings.
• Create and foster praise/recognition programs
• Use Lattice grow for career path tracking and compensation transparency
• Formalize company announcements, newsletters, memos, and bulletin boards
• Support employees to resolve questions/challenges and provide an excellent experience to the APEX team

Requirements

• College graduate with 5 years of business experience (or equivalent experience and PHR certification) in small to mid-sized companies
• Previous experience in Human Resources, Recruiting, or Training functions (preferably at least 2 of the 3).
• Excellent proven communications expertise in written and oral settings. While most communications will be one on one, some experience with small groups is also preferred.
• Experience in facilitating group events - in person and remote.
• Superior organizational and computer skills - you’ll own the people business and records and we know there is a lot of room for improvement here.
• HRIS software experience - Rippling preferred
• ATS software experience - Workable preferred
• Goals setting/management software experience - Lattice preferred

How to Apply:

When submitting your application please include a cover letter that answers the following question:

If you're a car enthusiast, help us understand how much of an enthusiast you are. If you're not, then tell us why that doesn't matter.

Benefits

• Full-time position $85 - $110K DOE
• Employee Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Spouse and dependent Medical benefits
• 401k with employer matching
• Stock options
• Vacation and Holiday pay
• Work in your pijamas - Fully remote telecommuting supported from anywhere in the USA
• Support your track addiction with reimbursements for HPDE and autocross event registration fees
• Casual in office dress environment where T-shirts, jeans, and shorts are welcome
• Get employee discounts and freebies on APEX products and schwag
• Participate in company activities including karting, spectating at races, track days, and more.